Richardcyoung.com

  • Home
  • Debbie Young
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Key West
  • Your Survival Guy
  • How We Are Different
  • Paris
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • Dick Young
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool
  • Anti-Gun Control
  • Anti-Digital Currency
  • Joel Salatin & Alfie Oakes
  • World Gold Mine Production
  • Fidelity & Wellington Since 1971
  • Hillsdale College
  • Babson College
  • Contact Us

Invasion of Ukraine a Wakeup Call

March 2, 2022 By Debbie Young

By VLADJ55 @ Shutterstock.com

The West, ever distancing itself from natural gas and nuclear, has been in an almost “hypnotic trance” about healing the planet with “soft energy” and renewables.

How has it happened that Vladimir Putin has gained a stranglehold over Europe’s energy supply? Michael Shellenberger explains in Bari Weiss’ Common Sense Substack: the West, seemingly stupefied in an attempt to heal its relationship with nature, averting climate apocalypse and worshiping a teenager named Greta, allowed Putin to make his moves.

The West’s Green Delusions

The lack of realism with the climate movement has ignored an important consideration: developed and developing nations are not going to forgo energy use. Now or ever. Yes, higher and lower carbon paths to the future are possible, offers Holman W. Jenkins in the WSJ.

The U.S. and others might have enacted carbon taxes long ago to foster the necessary technologies. They still might, though not because of the climate lobby’s persuasiveness. It’s far more likely to happen now because politicians want revenues to finance pro-growth tax cuts.

Climate Change – A Towering Lack of Realism

Give the public a choice between believing climate change is the end of the world or a crock, they will choose crock. Even more so if choosing “end of the world” also means volunteering to surrender their standard of living.

As an example, Mr. Jenkins writes of a few energy-related subjects in the wake of Russia’s market-roiling actions in Ukraine. Exxon was already riding high on the recovery of oil prices.

The world has shown it’s not remotely prepared to do without fossil fuels. And a beneficiary has been Engine No. 1, the hedge fund that fought a noisy battle last year for Exxon board seats, saying it wanted to lead the oil giant away from fossil fuels, a claim the media bought hook, line and sinker.

Putin has been relentless in focusing Russia on energy reality, observes Mr. Shellenberger, Putin now finds himself in a stronger position than “he should ever have been allowed to find himself.”

It’s not too late for the rest of the West to save the world from tyrannical regimes that have been empowered by our own energy superstitions.

 

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • The Wakeup Call for Americans!
  • Ukraine Defiant in the Face of Russian Invasion
  • Putin’s Quagmire in Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine Wants Russia/Western Ukraine wants E.U.
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie Young
Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
Debbie Young
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • Prostate Screening, an Important, Imperfect Tool - May 22, 2025
  • Salvaging the Unsalvageable - May 21, 2025
  • A Calculated Decision to Keep Silent - May 20, 2025

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Gold’s 50-Year Price Explosion
  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • TOP HEAVY: Focus on Big Indexing Could Cause Market Chaos
  • Stunned Democrats Against “Defund Police”
  • The Biden Cabal Wants to Stop the Use of Clean, Safe, Domestic Natural Gas
  • Progressive Liberalism Has Dragged America near Ruination
  • DEATH SPIRAL: Crime Soars in Democrats’ #DEFUNDTHEPOLICE Cities
  • Washington Is the Systemic Risk
  • “The Great Object Is that Every Man Be Armed”

Our Most Popular Posts

  • A Calculated Decision to Keep Silent
  • An American Tragedy
  • Congratulations, You Graduated into Retirement. Now What? #5
  • Retirement #4: How Do You Feel? How Will You Feel?
  • Who Knew about Biden's Health?
  • Middle East Investment Bonanza as Trump Tours Region
  • Donald Trump’s First 100 days
  • Is Trump Divorcing Bibi?
  • Congratulations, You’re Retired #3: “When You Were Young”
  • A Contemptable Little Twerp

Compensation was paid to utilize rankings. Click here to read full disclosure.

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Graduation to Retirement: “I Have a Guy” #7
  • Indonesia Urged to Act Fast to Avert Domestic Gas Crisis by 2033
  • Nuclear Power Gets Green Light in Sweden Despite Political Divide
  • Behind the Code: Microsoft Hunts a Global Cyber Threat
  • Congratulations, You’re Retired: Now What? Part 6
  • U.S. Billionaires Target Congo’s Cobalt in Bid to Secure Energy Future
  • China Dominates Battery Supply Chain: From Mine to Market
  • Shale Plateau Looms as Global LNG Market Set to Double
  • Congratulations, You Graduated into Retirement. Now What? #5
  • World’s Leading EV Motor Factory to Supply Ferrari and Lamborghini

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Graduation to Retirement: “I Have a Guy” #7
  • Your Retirement Life: Top of the Rock
  • Where Do We Stand with Tariffs?
  • Congratulations, You’re Retired: Now What? Part 6
  • Investing Habits of the Fairly Wealthy: #10 Powerball
  • Is America Poised for Next Gen Nuclear Power?
  • Congratulations, You Graduated into Retirement. Now What? #5
  • Big Blue Blob Cities Drive Residents (and Money) Away
  • Don’t Forget the Laffer Curve
  • Retirement #4: How Do You Feel? How Will You Feel?

US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

My Key West Garden Office

Your Retirement Life: Traveling the Efficient Frontier

Live a Long Life

Your Survival Guy’s Mt. Rushmore of Investing Legends

“Then One Day the Grandfather was Gone”

Copyright © 2025 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives